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Announcement

Update and Clarifications: 1997-2000 Men's Age Group Competition Program

From: Ray Gura, Chairman, Age Group Competition Committee
Date: June 12, 1996 (official update per Dennis McIntyre, USA Gymnastics)

This update contains clarifications and rule modifications for the 1997-2000 Age Group Competition Program. These changes and clarifications are effective immediately.

Changes

  1. Compulsories - Intermediate swings. All intermediate swings in compulsory competition will be deducted as per FIG (1/2 swing is - 0.2; entire swing is - 0.4). Intermediate swings are not added parts. To make the correction in the Age Group Competition Program Manual, change:
    a. Page 14, A, number 2: Delete the words or swing
    b. Page 14, A, add number 7: Intermediate swing (as per FIG)
  2. Class III Required Skill number 2 on Parallel Bars - Minimum B Value, stutz or back-toss to support (page 20). The stutz must be a forward stutz. The junior program will recognize B value stutz, as defined in the 1993-96 FIG Code of Points, as a forward stutz executed 45o above horizontal. In addition the junior program will recognize a B value back-toss, as defined in the 1993-96 FIG Code of Points, as a salto backward to support.
  3. Age determining date. In an effort to make the age determining rules as clear as possible, please amend page 8, A, number 3 to read: Gymnasts under the age of six will not be permitted to participate in the Age Group Competition Program under any circumstance. The athlete must turn six years of age before he may begin competition.
  4. Mounting the parallel bars using panel mats. Amend page 10, B, number 1 to read: Panel mats may be used to mount any apparatus. At the parallel bars, a gymnast may not mount from stacked mats which would place that gymnast's shoulders above the bottom of the rails while in a standing position. In addition, a board or a mat may be used to mount the parallel bars but not both.

Clarifications

  1. Floor Exercise Class IV - Must the Required Skill number 1 be a layout back somersault or would a twisting layout back somersault fulfill the requirement? Yes, only a layout back somersault will fulfill the requirement.
  2. Pommel Horse Class IV - Must all three parts of the horse be used? Yes. Even though the required skills in the Class IV modified optional pommel horse do not require that all three parts of the horse be used, the FIG general presentation requirements do require that all three parts of the horse be used. The deduction for not using all three parts of the horse, as per FIG, is - 0.02.

This article appears in the July 1996 issue of Technique, Vol. 16, No. 7.


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